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An Aspect of the Renaissance in Gavin Douglas’ Eneados

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2019

Louis Brewer Hall
Louis Brewer Hall*
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Gonzaga University
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Interest in Gavin Douglas has bloomed, attending reappraisal of that group of poets designated as the Scottish Chaucerians. Admirers of Douglas, Henry son, Barbour, Dunbar, and the rest now have as their ally C. S. Lewis and the authority of his English Literature in the Sixteenth Century. In this work, Lewis devotes ten pages to a detailed examination of Douglas’ translation of the Aeneid, and he is propitious in his final evaluation of it: ‘Here a great story is greatly told and set off with original embellishments which are all to the good—all either delightful or interesting—in their diverse ways.’

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Studies in the Renaissance , Volume 7 , 1960 , pp. 184 - 192
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Copyright © Renaissance Society of America 1960

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References

1 (Oxford, 1954), p. 90.

2 Ibid., p. 86.

3 Ibid., p. 88.

4 PMLA LXVII (1952), 845-862.

5 Ibid., p. 851.

6 Ibid., p. 862.

7 Ibid., pp. 854-855.

8 Caxton's Eneydos, ed. M. T. Culley and F. J. Furnivall (London, 1890, EETS ES 57), p. 10.

9 J. P. Migne, Patrologia Latina, CXCIX, 621-622.

10 See Gilson, Etienne, History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages (New York, 1955), pp. 93–94 Google Scholar; Klibanski, R., The Continuity of the Platonic Tradition during the Middle Ages (London, 1939)Google Scholar; Taylor, H. O., The Medieval Mind (Cambridge, Mass., 1949), chap, xxixGoogle Scholar; McKeon, Richard, ‘Poetry and Philosophy in the Twelfth Century’ in Critics and Criticism, ed. Crane, R. S. (Chicago, 1952), pp. 297–318 Google Scholar.

11 P.L., CLXXVI, 772.

12 P.L., CLXXVI, 771-772.

13 The technique was employed in the composition of certain types of medieval poetry. Richard H. Green has described this method as it was employed by Alanus de Insulis for the De planctu naturae (Speculum XXXI, 1956, 649-674). See also Robertson, D. W., ‘Some Medieval Literary Terminology, with Special References to Chrétien de Troves’, SP XLVIII (1951), 669–692 Google Scholar.

14 Commentum super sex libros Eneidos, ed. William Riedel (Greifswald, 1924), p. 1.

15 Ibid., pp. 2-3.

16 P.L., CXCIX, 817.

17 Poetical Works, ed. John Small (Edinburgh, 1874), II, 7-8. All citations of Douglas in this paper are from this edition by volume and page. Small's line numbers are very inaccurate.

18 Complete Works, ed. F. N. Robinson (Boston, 1957), p. 500.

19 P.L., CX, 1116.

20 P.L., CCX, 160.

21 Summa theologiae, IIa, IIae, Q. 123, A. 3.